Articles | Volume 15, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7043-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7043-2018
Research article
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27 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 27 Nov 2018

Alteration of nitrous oxide emissions from floodplain soils by aggregate size, litter accumulation and plant–soil interactions

Martin Ley, Moritz F. Lehmann, Pascal A. Niklaus, and Jörg Luster

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Our laboratory study shows how microhabitat formation linked to soil aggregates, litter accumulation and plant soil interactions affects conditions under which hot moments of enhanced N2O emissions from floodplain soils during the drying phase after saturation occur. Larger aggregate size led to higher integrated flux rates when soil was unamended or mixed with leaf litter, whereas planting with willow significantly reduced emissions. Also, emission time patterns differed among the treatments.
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